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Is Dianne Feinstein too old to run for re-election?
Sacramento Bee ^ | January 8, 2018 | BY EMILY CADEI

Posted on 01/08/2018 1:56:14 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s age has become an increasingly unavoidable part of her biography.

“At age 84, Dianne Feinstein is the oldest of the 100 United States senators,” Los Angeles Times columnist Harold Meyerson began a July op-ed that argued she shouldn’t run for re-election. A December Washington Post article also highlighted that Feinstein is the oldest member of “the oldest Senate ever.” Saturday Night Live even featured the veteran Democratic lawmaker – or rather, an impersonation of her – in a November skit mocking Democrats’ bid to repackage their aging leaders as fresh new faces.

Now, as she gears up for a race that would keep her in office until the age of 91, Feinstein’s biggest challenge may be to prove to voters that she hasn’t lost a step – or lost touch with Californians’ values.

Feinstein’s main challenger, state Senate President Kevin de León, and his allies are trying their best to sow doubts about the latter, while insisting they are not going after the senator’s age. It requires walking a tricky rhetorical tightrope.

Polling, however, shows California voters have some doubts. In a September 2017 poll from the Public Policy Institute of California, less than half of likely voters said Feinstein should run again. A poll from the University of California, Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies last spring found that highlighting the senator’s age caused a drop in support for her re-election.

Still, she maintains a comfortable, if not commanding, lead over the 51-year-old de León in recent head-to-head matchups.

The Los Angeles Democrat has made the generational difference between himself and Feinstein a central plank of his long-shot challenge. Because of the state’s top-two primary system, where the top two finishers advance to the general election, de León is poised to be Feinstein’s opponent next November.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; diannefeinstein; feinstein; haroldmeyerson; kevindeleon; singlepartystate
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California democrats want to replace Dianne Feinstein with a Mexican democrat.
1 posted on 01/08/2018 1:56:14 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not too old, just too liberal!


2 posted on 01/08/2018 1:57:49 PM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem wiath socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

too old to run for reelection...yes.
too crooked and compromised not to.... also, yes.
she needs the protective cloak of the office to ward off investigations, prosecutions, imprisonment...like so many other Californication D political hacks (think: Pelousy)...
in my humble opinion

she will run for reelection or else pick up her filthy lucre and run out of the country


3 posted on 01/08/2018 2:00:21 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She hasn’t ran since 1958 when a fiesty Harry Reid chased her around a desk one time.
She will hobble for re-election and win unfortunately.


4 posted on 01/08/2018 2:01:32 PM PST by Leep (My otto erect is walking joist find.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She will run and then the new governor will name the replacement.

Come on.....the same game is being played in Utah with Mittens.


5 posted on 01/08/2018 2:01:46 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: TruthWillWin
just too liberal

In California Dianne is a moderate. Anyone who replaces her is likely to be a totally zoned out leftist whacko nutjob.

6 posted on 01/08/2018 2:03:09 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When the sac bee is against her...she is in trouble. She and her ilk wanted all those illegals in country..funny she might get replaced by one.


7 posted on 01/08/2018 2:03:30 PM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

TERM LIMITS please!!!


8 posted on 01/08/2018 2:03:36 PM PST by rhc2000
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No, she’s at the peak of her ability, looks and charm!


9 posted on 01/08/2018 2:05:38 PM PST by null and void (Delusionals vs Deplorables. Guess who wins?)
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To: AndyJackson

...Anyone who replaces her is likely to be a totally zoned out leftist whacko nutjob...

Somebody can out “moonbeam” Governor, Jerry Brown.


10 posted on 01/08/2018 2:08:31 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yet another poster child for term limits.


11 posted on 01/08/2018 2:09:51 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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California democrats want to replace Dianne Feinstein with a Mexican democrat.

In CA, that's going to happen to all of them regardless. It's what happens when you promote a certain group of people to overrun an existing population.

Just ask native Americans!

12 posted on 01/08/2018 2:09:52 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

old but mostly stupid


13 posted on 01/08/2018 2:10:54 PM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Old is just one of the things which Diane Feinstein is too.


14 posted on 01/08/2018 2:16:06 PM PST by arthurus (iF)
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To: AndyJackson

DITTOES to THAT !!


15 posted on 01/08/2018 2:20:38 PM PST by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Too incompetent.


16 posted on 01/08/2018 2:27:27 PM PST by mulligan (The)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Too old
Too stupid
Too corrupt
Too communist

Take your pick.


17 posted on 01/08/2018 2:40:34 PM PST by Newtoidaho (Proud member of Trump's army of online trolls)
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California democrats want to replace Dianne Feinstein with a Mexican democrat.

Guatemalan, apparently.

According to Wikipedia, Kevin de León was born Kevin Alexander Leon "in Los Angeles to Andres Leon and Carmen Osorio, both of whom were born in Guatemala; Andres was of Chinese descent." They don't say if Leon was originally a Spanish or a Chinese name.

Also, Leon or de León says he was raised on both sides of the US Mexico border. His parents weren't married to each other when he was born, and his mother's husband at one point was Mexican, so maybe in some way he is Mexican after all.

It sounds like Kevin doesn't know or remember or want to talk much about his background. Or maybe he talks about it too much. Anyway, he may be as old as DiFi by the time this is all straightened out.

18 posted on 01/08/2018 2:43:41 PM PST by x
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not too old, too stupid.


19 posted on 01/08/2018 2:46:54 PM PST by Randy Larsen (Trump IS MY president and I'm damn proud of him!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Some people at 84 are still very sharp. I play cards with a bunch of them every Tuesday. Some of them are in their 90s. Sharp as tacks. (For those who know what a “tack” is.)


20 posted on 01/08/2018 2:50:45 PM PST by faucetman (Ju"st the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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